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RokoMijicUK

"Why are young Asians now woke?"tl;dr: They're signalling. But this raises an interesting question: How do some groups manage to use politics to advocate for their own interest, whilst others

mrgunn

mrgunn

Justin's mega-article on scientific publishing is out! Wish he would have focused more on how the value of publishers is illuminated by #COVIDー19, but should raise the level of discussion.

Erik Torenberg

eriktorenberg

Slate Star Codex had this post along time ago that explains why the center-left seems to hate, say, Margaret Thatcher or Milton Friedman, more than Osama Bin Laden.Or the same

Jamie McHale

jamiemchale

Last night was fun - I've signed up to the @interintellect_ series on "reading the greats" of western literature hosted by @tommycollison and @dmcdougall. We started with the Iliad. I'll

Bennett's Demilich

jcbonthedl

The American Psychiatric Association has more raw, unchecked power than any organization on earth, second only to SCOTUSThey write the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual, literally the yardstick against which human

Erik Torenberg

eriktorenberg

Book notes from Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the 21st Century" Curious to hear critiques & responses to the book.https://www.amazon.com/Capital-Twenty-First-Century-Thomas-Piketty/dp/0674979850/ref=pd_bxgy_img_2/130-690528

Zero HP Lovecraft

0x49fa98

Right now we exist in an overly permissive environment, a hyper-feminized environment, and this degrades our ability to discern right from wrong. That’s because women don't respect laws, they only

Zero HP Lovecraft

0x49fa98

There is an endless litany of arguments against democracy and you probably know them all, already. Yes, I know the US is a republic, but spiritually it's a democracy; we

(((E. Glen Weyl)))

glenweyl

One other thing I should really clarify and that the @nytimes piece got *severely* wrong: while I believe there are very strong sociological and even causal links between rationalism and

James Kierstead

Kleisthenes2

I. Among several points of interest in this recent piece is a particular story about the origins of 'Classics' and of our ideas about 'Western Civilization,' 'the Western tradition,' and

antirobust

antirobust

corona & the politicization of everything has me pondering how my information diet has changed over the last ~decade, strategies for identifying & avoiding fake news(thread) biggest one imo is:

Putanumonit Jacob

yashkaf

Good news, everyone, I figured it all out! Yes, all of it: free energy, the entropic brain, mental disorders, postmodernism, rationality, and psychedelics. Now y'all can wait a couple of

Paras Chopra

paraschopra

1/ A thread on BUILDING MENTAL IMMUNITY against DEPRESSION and ANXIETY.You take vitamins, follow a good diet and go to the gym for physical immunity. I urge you to do

Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🇺🇸

Conaw

A brief rant on note-taking apps and the structure of thought. Or "Why Evernote is a terrible second brain." 1. We form complicated beliefs about how the world works, through

Conor Barnes

Ideopunk

100* TIPS FOR A BETTER LIFEI love advice threads so I decided to make my own, inspired by @yashkaf's from last year. If you know a source for an unsourced

Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🇺🇸

Conaw

In the spirit of Christmas, I'll do a @vgr style ratchet of one tweet per like on the intersection ofJesusEvolution The Simulation Argument Julian Jaynes&Predictive ProcessingNo cap. No deadline either

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